SWTOR‘s fresh content mill continues to crank on the missions for light-saberists and chums. Speaking here, Bioware’s Austin bossbloke Matt Bromberg said: “We’re committed to: about every six weeks, doing a major update for the game — which would be a new Warzone, a new Operation, a new Flashpoint, a new event — and to doing that on a really frequent cadence, every six weeks.” So that’s EVERY SIX WEEKS. Got that? (Nice use of the word “cadence” there, Matt.) The upcoming 1.4 update is proof of this policy, because it contains a new operation called “Terror From Beyond”. This features the Gree planet of Asation, and a “hypergate”, which you can see in action below.

The hypergate which is like a normal gate, only it spews monsters onto the planet and glows a fashionable neon blue. In this preview video Bioware’s handsome writers and designers explain that the new not-a-dungeon consists in a bunch of esoteric missions, one of which is a puzzle in which the players must “debug a computer”, although they seem to do that by killing things. Seems like a theme in recent Bioware games… If only debugging were so satisfyingly explosive in the real world, eh programmers?

I still play this, and I don’t understand what all the fuss is about and why people are so critical about this game. Week after week it runs away with a box full of hours of my life that I will never get back, but I’m not complaining!

There’s a whole Secret World of haters out there, it’s not that easy, you know. There’s so many haters, that they fight entire Guild Wars against each other, just to have something to do. Sure, in The Perfect World everyone loves this game and maybe one day we’ll all go “WoW!” when we see it happen but Aion think so.

Erm, uh, it’s just… content updates to SWTOR were plagued with delays when they were fully staffed… I feel a little bit (read: fantastically) skeptical that the studio can come up updates the size of flashpoints and raids but on a shorter timeline and with 30%+ fewer people post-layoffs. Call me crazy.

How is this a new thing? The Star Wars license has been slapped on random crap for decades now, to the point where the universe barely has any of its own flavour left. Let`s not even get into BioWare not knowing the difference between Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons. At least making their own IP allowed them to make stuff that makes sense in-universe.